Currently Listening Can You Hear Us? By David Crowder Band My Hope see related

VOXTROPOLIS - THE CITY OF VOICES

Greetings all -

Please join me in the city of voices... http://terrytimm.voxtropolis.com/

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WAKE UP

Yesterday's Origins Experience began with a procession of 700 missional leaders being led into the Mott Auditorium on the campus of William Carrey University by four guys creating some incredible rhythms on metal garbage cans. What a wake up call. And so Origins began!

The Origins Experience has become for me an annual wake up call - a reminder to become the person God has intended, created, redeemed, and gifted me to be. Nothing more and nothing less - but oh what a call that is!

Overnight a song and a text have been rolling through my soul. The song is "Wake Up" by The Arcade Fire:

Something filled up my heart with nothing, someone told me not to cry.

But now that I'm older, my heart's colder, and I can see that it's a lie.

Children wake up, hold your mistake up, before they turn the summer into dust.

If the children don't grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.

We're just a million little god's causing rain storms turning' every good thing to rust.

I guess we'll just have to adjust.

And the text is Ephesians 3:20-21

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen!

May God awaken the dreams within.

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CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME

Well, tomorrow evening my friend Terry Mann and I fly to LA to be a part of the Origins Experience. While I attended last year, this will be Terry's first connection point. Terry's a visionary leader and I know he is going to be energized by the creative environment.

I do have a huge day ahead of me tomorrow as my partner in ministry, Marlaena Cochran and I are introducing our community of faith to a missional rule of life, a particular set of attitudes, practices and rhythms that we believe will help our community follow Jesus into the world. Are any of you moving in this direction? I would love to compare notes. In the afternoon we will be at Aldo Coffee for Soul Cafe. Our theme for this month is "Are You Living It Right?" And then off to the airport for a 6 PM flight

I am looking forward to connecting face to face with others in the city of voices. Coffee, conversation, whatever….We're staying at the Hampton Inn. Look us up.  

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United 93

On Sunday morning, our community of faith explored Jesus' words in John 15: "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command" (John 15:12-14).

On Sunday afternoon my son and I went to see United 93. To be honest, I really didn't want to see the film. I was trying to give my son out of the house for the afternoon and spend some time with him. To be honest, I didn't enjoy the movie, but by the end of the film, I am telling you, there was a holy silence unlike anything I have ever witnessed.

What about you? Have you seen the movie? Will you? Why or why not?

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Water for Life

A pessimist, the say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who is thirsty. (G. Donald Gale)

Last Spring, our church participated in two local community days. We had an informational booth where we shared some propaganda about our congregation. But the cool thing about our involvement was that fact that we gave away free, ice-cold bottled water. It was fun to simply bless people with a refreshing drink on a warm, spring day and it reminded me of what a gift just a few ounces of water can be to a thirsty person.

As we distributed the water, we also shared some information about World Vision’s Trachoma project in Tanzania and gave people the opportunity if they so desired to make a contribution to a well project in that country. Trachoma is the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness impact over 6 million men, women, and children throughout the world. Caused by bacteria, trachoma spreads rapidly in communities where people don't have enough water to wash their hands and faces regularly. Washing with as little as one liter of clean water each day can prevent the disease. But for people living in places like drought-prone Africa, even a few ounces are too precious in light of their struggle to find enough clean water to drink.

Did you know:

• there are almost 300 million people living in Africa who have no access to safe drinking water;
• in many villages, women must walk over eight miles a day to obtain safe drinking water;
• nearly 150 children die every hour in Africa from complications surrounding a lack of clean water;
• in many African villages, clean water is available, right below their feet; they simply do not have the means to bring it to the surface.

It does not have to be this way – change is possible. Organizations like World Vision, Blood:Water Mission, WaterAid and LifeWater International have teams ready to drill clean-water wells. In many communities, the only obstacle is money.

Pray; educate, activate, donate, involve others – what would a next step look like for you?

As Derek Webb says, “there’s a kingdom coming where you will not thirst. And we’re going to pray that day into today. We’re going to work for that day to come today.” May it be so!

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